Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
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Do tell - it's to the point where I am considering breaking the lease, so I'm willing to try things.
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@solstice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Instead, it's been constant road noise keeping me up while trying to sleep to the extent that I feel like I have to drug myself to get a good night's sleep because the soundproofing in the unit is so abysmally bad.
Sympathies
White noise helps some folks - there are some apps.
I personally find noise-cancelling headphones very useful for bad sound days, and some are comfortable enough to sleep in. Kinda depends on your preferences though.
Good luck!
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@solstice Also, if there are a lot of windows, the thermal curtains often come with some sound proofing. I thought it was bunk, until I got them.
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@solstice You've already tried the obvious stuff like buying a bag of earplugs from Walmart?
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Redbull shortage in my area, what I am going to do!!!!!!!!!
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@kk Try Bang or Monster?
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Be careful with Bang. It's SO SWEET. Holy crap sweet. Southern sweet tea aspires to be that sweet.
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It can be sweet, but they have no sugars. (important things for people like me to know)
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Doordash has suddenly started offering customers the option for delivery for tons of small grocery and department stores that don't have dedicated online order packers.
How, you ask??
TRULY A CHRISTMAS MIRACLEoh right we are the order packers now.FUCK. OFF.
I wish I could find the miserable little corporate bastard who had this idea and put my fist into his face.
It sucks, so much. People barely offer decent tips on these anyway to begin with, it takes like half a goddamn hour to fulfill since the stores are almost guaranteed to be unfamiliar to you, and Doordash's inventory system is so fucking broken that you wind up having to cancel half the order because none of the options the customer picked are even carried and the app doesn't recognize a single UPC code for substitutions despite that being an option, so your payout drops by half or even 3/4ths when you check out.
It is so fucking insulting, AAAAAAAHHHHHH.
Kay, swear jar full.
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Given how shitty instacart's shopping platform is and it is centered around personal shopping i can't even imagine what its like having a new i wanna get a piece of this half-ass add on to a gig platform is like.
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A cash grab is absolutely what it is. I have absolutely no idea how to deal with a company whose entire business model is deliberately tricking the people that work for them into losing money on a job. They're so blatantly awful, just like Uber and tons of other "gig" companies, and have reaped tons of profit from it, it is mind boggling.
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@wizz said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I wish I could find the miserable little corporate bastard who had this idea and put my fist into his face.
I don't blame the corporate bastard: I blame those who use the service to enjoy some undeserved sense of accomplishment in life by cravenly harassing service people.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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I'm not sure if this is a localized thing or might be rippling out elsewhere but in the medical practice I got to they are even suspending a lot of routine or important but not critical lab stuff for lack of supplies. Including things like the specific color caps used for CBC vials, the vials for blood collection in general, ect.
I hope that this is more of a catchup thing from my state being pounded by whacky weather but. If its a broader supply chain issue, well. Its really stressful.
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We had that at my work, pushing back less important lab work due to supply shortages.
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Soooooo, I work in material logistics/transportation for a major automotive company. These shortages are deep-rooted and spreading farther and wider as ports are coming under heavier and heavier restrictions for going into/out of America. It's taking a lot longer (sometimes months longer) for our shipments to be released through customs, both coming and going. China is still experiencing heavy shortages across the board, it's no longer just microchips, as COVID continues to evolve and spread. Also, CNY is coming up, so prepare for things there to basically shut down for awhile.
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@ganymede I blame them. All of the gig platforms rely on deceptive practices towards clients and workers (tip and how people get paid obfuscation, allowing for 2-3 days for tips to be changed/revoked while not compensating worker when the original tip is part of the wage presented to the worker before they take that order) and predatory behavior towards workers. They've been caught again and again; get busted with a lawsuit and fines, lay low and then creep up with the same offenses because the $$$ is immense, for them.
Putting drivers and customers in danger with known problem customers/drivers. Lying about insurance status as far as on the job injuries or accidents, ect. Its pretty sad. People shit on Amazon and it is a shitty company don't get me wrong, but I know that they blacklist clients who assault or harass drivers (instacart will not), when I got in a fender bender on the clock their insurance paid, while they did steal tips as well (I recently got a surprise payout from them of the amount they stole from me and I haven't driven for them in like 4 years), you were also paid up front for your time.
I have received 3 oops sorry we stole from you payout from Instacart when I still drove for them that totalled almost $3000. There was a local customer who would come to the door jacking off if he saw it was a female driver, and they refused to blacklist that customer and kicked the driver who eventually filed a police report rather than just a problem customer report off the platform. They refused to blacklist a customer who let out their aggressive dogs twice on me (and many others, but I wrote down the complete address the second time and screenshotted the GPS map so I could refuse his deliveries from then on--instacart at that time obfuscated addresses but would show a modified map on offered jobs; you'd only get the address after you accepted and dropping the job after accepting would lock you out of the platform for awhile).
Customers suck too, but most of these gig companies suck even more.
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Yeah, I mean. Individual people can be incredibly shitty in the brief time you're obligated to deal with them as customers, but these corporations are willing to literally ruin their driver's lives for a quick buck. (See Uber and their car loans. Predatory does not even begin to describe it, they basically create indentured servants.) Human life is appallingly cheap to them, there's really no comparison.
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@wizz said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Human life is appallingly cheap to them, there's really no comparison.
I do not mean to belittle or demean your experiences. I understand how shitty the businesses are.
But capitalism is demand-driven, and if there is no demand for a service it disappears.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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I highly doubt the average consumer knows about these practices, so I am not sure that tracks. I certainly didn't know the extent of it before I started working for them, though I have always liked to think of myself as fairly savvy.
They're exploiting a market that they created and choking out any potential ethically-minded competition in the process in extremely underhanded ways. When you have absolutely insane amounts of money to just throw around from other billionaire vulture capitalists, capitalism has this mysterious way of working however you want it to?
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@too-old-for-this CNY?
